aztecOver at PhysOrg they have an article about Antonio Serrato-Combe’s efforts to digitally reconstruct the Aztec Ruins.  As a professor of archtecture at the University of Utah, he has spent decades researching the ruins and in 2002 published a book, “The Aztec Templo Mayor: A Visualization”.

More involved than the research however, was the question of how to visualize the discoveries. A self-proclaimed computer geek, it was at the suggestion of a student that Combe combined his two passions of research and computer graphics into an illustrated book. He said, “One day, after one of my history classes here at the University of Utah, one of my students remarked, ‘since you know so much about pre-Columbian architecture and you also seem to be a computer geek, why don’t you combine both disciplines and come up with a book that uses digital tools to illustrate the past?” The rest is history.

via Visualizing the Aztecs.